Deck The Walls Holiday Artisan MarketOpening Reception, Friday, November 16, 6-8pm at The R2 Gallery in The Launchpad

Join Carbondale Arts for the Opening Reception of its annual Deck The Walls holiday show on Friday, November 16, from 6 to 8p.m. at The Launchpad (76 S. 4th St, Carbondale, CO). Carbondale Arts transforms the R2 Gallery into a shop filled with artisanal goods created by local and regional artists from all over the Roaring Fork Valley and the state of Colorado. Goods include candles, handmade scarves and hats, glass ornaments, cards & prints, jewelry, bird houses & feeders, herbal salves & lotions, maple syrup, felted animals, calendars, ceramic mugs, mittens and hats, soaps, and more! Deck the Walls will be open for shopping Monday to Friday from 9am to 5pm, Saturdays from 10am to 5pm and Sundays (December 9, 16, 23 only) from 12pm to 5pm. Receive a complimentary glass of bubbly during our Champagne Shopping events from 3 to 5pm on Saturdays in December! For more information about the show and to see the list of participating artisans please visit www.carbondalearts.com.

Carbondale, CO- Jan. 30.-- Carbondale Arts presents the Colorado ArtBeat Film Series + Art Exhibit, with an opening reception to the public at the R2 Gallery in The Launchpad in Carbondale on Friday, Feb. 23, from 6p.m. to 8p.m. FuseMedia, owned by Chris and Heather Macdonald, produced a documentary series in 2017, profiling five artists working and living in Colorado. The artists featured in this first series include oil painter Gregory Block of Steamboat Springs, glass and metal artist Robert Burch of Carbondale, photography artist Linda Girvin of Aspen, metal sculptor Joshua Goss of Greeley, and ceramicist Sara Ransford of Loma. The series takes an in-depth, up-close, and personal look at each artist’s process, influence, and inspiration. The 10-15 minute films of the artists will be viewable on iPads next to the artwork through March 23. Additionally, all five films will be shown as a special feature presentation (approx. 55 minutes) at The Launchpad on First Friday, Mar. 2, at 6:30p.m.

FuseMedia is an Aspen-based video production company that specializes in online marketing videos for businesses and non-profit organizations and in 2017, created the ArtBeat Film series as a passion project, raising funds through Indiegogo. Owners Chris and Heather want to give artists exposure, giving an intimate look into their lives to see what inspires them to create. FuseMedia plans to continue the film series with another round of artists in 2018 using the same crowdsourcing fundraising model.

After graduating with a BA in biology from Colorado College in 2009, Kansas City native Gregory Block devoted his energy to painting and has since gained recognition as “one of the most promising young artists in the representational art world” (Fine Art Today). Robert Burch began working with glass at the age of 16 and later studied at the Pilchuck Glass School in Washington. Robert joined a color team for Chihuly Inc. in Seattle through Martin Blank Studios and now works as an independent traveling artist, teaching and making work here in the United States, as well as in Sweden. Maine native Joshua Goss, B.Sc. Geology, MFA Metals, uses metal fabrication and blacksmithing techniques to simulate geological processes and transformations in his sculptural work. After studying geology in Nova Scotia, he took a position at an architectural blacksmith shop in Colorado, and in 2013 started his own studio in Greeley. Photography MFA artist Linda Girvin toes the line between life and death, realism and abstraction. Her photo-based images have been shown across the United States as well as Germany. Linda now makes her home and studio in Aspen. Ceramic artist Sara Ransford received her BFA from CU Boulder, where she studied under Betty Woodman and Anne Currier. She has been an artist in residence at Anderson Ranch Arts Center, and has taught workshops there and across Colorado and Hawaii. She was awarded The Red Brick 2011 Artist Tribute from Red Brick Center for the Arts in Aspen, CO.

A preview for Carbondale Arts members and gallery patrons will take place before the opening reception on Friday, Feb. 23, at 5:30 p.m. to meet some of the artists and have an opportunity to see the exhibition before it opens at 6p.m. For more information, visit carbondalearts.com or call (970) 963-1680.

Blue Spiral 1's most diverse annual exhibition presenting artists that have never before shown in the gallery. This show will offer a wide range of mixed media including ceramic, petrified wood, layered paper, glass, steel, encaustic, and photocopy transfer.

Flug and Burch are multimedia artists; Burch’s primary material is glass, which he combines with wood and abandoned industrial parts to dramatic, alchemical effect. 65 – 26 will debut his process of pouring bronze into glass. Flug is a painter, sculptor, and transformer of found objects. Her collage and assemblage art pieces contain elements of pop and folk art traditions. Together their work is at once rough and delicate, raw emotion and refined idea. All of this is on display in 65 – 26, an exhibition of Burch and Flug’s work that runs for the month of September in The Art Center’s North and Atrium galleries.

Featuring the work of thirteen artists, the majority of whom attended the Pilchuck Glass School founded by Dale Chihuly in Washington state. The exhibiting artists have continued to encourage and inspire their fellow glass artisans, fostering a love of glass and pushing beyond traditional expectations.

Carbondale Arts is pleased to host Incandescence, an exhibition at the R2 Gallery located in The Launchpad open through March 17. Incandescence showcases a new collection of encaustic paintings by artist and designer Erin Rigney as well as 9 Roaring Fork Valley glass artists, curated by Robert Burch. Burch will also display his new glass and metal series titled ‘Material Studies.’ Rigney’s encaustic abstractions are an exploration of the atmospheric designs in shells and the unsung art that washes up upon our shores.